Growing up and looking back at how our society shaped by the transformation of new technology changes our dependency on how to communicate. I remember when I was young, I hardly spent time on the phone or the computer. I remember on the last day of my last year in middle school was when I got my first cell phone. Nothing really changed after that, but my use of the internet began to change. At first, all I used the computer for was IMing, gaming, and communicating through a website called, Xanga. A couple years after that, I realized that there was so many things I could do as friends introduced me to Myspace, Facebook, friendster, Skype and etc. that it got to be a whole new experience on how to communicate to the point you didn't have to meet your friends anymore. Why meet up with them when you can meet up with anyone else on the internet? But then, some things got a little creepy. I realized that not only did I attract my old buddies, but creepers as well. The internet does become a personal catalog for others to see and I began to see more reports on children missing because they were meeting other people on the internet.
Another experience I had with the new technology is the use of texting. At first, I HATED it because why should you have to work out your fingers when all you can do is call them? Make some use of your fingers by dialing the numbers... but I guess people like gaining some finger muscles. Why don't ya flex it out sometime to see how much you text. I notice that people do not pay attention anymore. And I'm talking paying attention in general. What I hate the most is when people are texting during a lecture or when you are in the middle of talking, they always look on their phone hoping that someone texts them. Oh, and my personal favorite, people who text when you are talking on the phone with them. Does anyone care what anyone says anymore? Technology somehow creates a new world for us making things easier in our lives, yet somehow destroys us leaving us defenseless to do anything on our own anymore.
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